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Friday, September 28, 2018

“Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy won’t weigh in on Kavanaugh fight”: Sam Stanton of The Sacramento Bee has this report.

Posted at 11:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“Former FBI agents say there are clues to follow from dramatic Kavanaugh hearing”: Del Quentin Wilber of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

Posted at 11:17 PM by Howard Bashman



“Kavanaugh Confirmation Vote Is Delayed For FBI Investigation; GOP leaders, following request by Flake, want a further look into sexual-assault allegations”: Kristina Peterson, Natalie Andrews, and Rebecca Ballhaus will have this article in Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Also in Saturday’s edition of that newspaper, Alex Leary and Siobhan Hughes will have an article headlined “Expansion of FBI Probe Draws Focus on Kavanaugh’s High School Associates; Sudden turn of events in Senate Judiciary Committee intensifies attention on a handful of people.”

And Siobhan Hughes and Joshua Jamerson of The Wall Street Journal report that “Sen. Jeff Flake Emerges as Pivotal Figure in Senate’s Delay on Kavanaugh; In the morning, Arizona Republican said he would support nominee; By afternoon, he had moved to put off the vote.”

Posted at 11:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“Another Kavanaugh Flakeout: The American Bar Association president tries to sandbag another nominee.” This editorial appears online at The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 10:56 PM by Howard Bashman



“Harvard Law students protest any return of lecturer Brett Kavanaugh to Cambridge”: Michael Levenson of The Boston Globe has an article that begins, “While Republicans work furiously to salvage Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh nomination to the Supreme Court, there’s another position he may be struggling to hold on to: lecturer at Harvard Law School.”

And Jamie D. Halper and Aidan F. Ryan of The Harvard Crimson have an article headlined “‘We Deserve Better’: Harvard Students Take In Kavanaugh-Ford Hearing, Protest the Law School and the Nominee.”

Posted at 10:28 PM by Howard Bashman



“Why Christine Blasey Ford Isn’t Allowed to Be Mad; The Kavanaugh hearing was a master class in misreading anger as honesty”: Lili Loofbourow has this essay online at Slate.

Posted at 10:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“Senate Republicans Agree to One Week Delay in Final Kavanaugh Vote”: Nicholas Fandos and Sheryl Gay Stolberg of The New York Times have an article that begins, “Senate Republican leaders, bowing to a last-minute demand from Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona, will delay by as much as one week a vote on whether to confirm Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, to allow time for an F.B.I. investigation into accusations of sexual assault against the nominee.”

Posted at 4:23 PM by Howard Bashman



“Kavanaugh confirmation hits major snag after Flake seeks FBI probe; Republicans were on course to take the judge’s high court nomination to the Senate floor as soon as this weekend”: Elana Schor and Burgess Everett of Politico have this report.

Posted at 2:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“A Bitter Nominee, Questions of Neutrality, and a Damaged Supreme Court”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

Posted at 2:45 PM by Howard Bashman



“Brett Kavanaugh Disqualified Himself From the Supreme Court: The embattled nominee confirmed Democrats’ fears that he would be a partisan warrior for the right.” Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.

Posted at 1:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Senate’s Failure to Seek the Truth: It is impossible to justify the lack of a neutral investigation into the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh.” Emily Bazelon has this essay online at The New York Times.

Posted at 1:26 PM by Howard Bashman



“Brett Kavanaugh’s Damaging, Revealing Partisan Bitterness”: Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen has this post online at The New Yorker.

Also online there, Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer have a post titled “E-mails Show That Republican Senate Staff Stymied a Kavanaugh Accuser’s Effort to Give Testimony.”

Doreen St. Félix has a post titled “The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearings Will Be Remembered As a Grotesque Display of Patriarchal Resentment.”

Susan B. Glasser has a post titled “‘If They Can, They Will’: The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearing and the Angry Politics of Now; There are two Americas, growing more enraged by the minute, and they are not listening to each other.”

And Lauren Collins has a post titled “Brett Kavanaugh and the Innocence of White Jocks.”

Posted at 1:14 PM by Howard Bashman